It could have been a great movie...

Rating: 5/10 (30 July 2005)

I went to see The Island yesterday, intrigued by the trailers and, i must admit, by the female actor as well.
The first half-an-hour of the movie was by my opinion the best. I like movies that don't really provide a whole set of answers right away. We're kept unaware of what the island is, what the contamination means, why the uncontaminated people have to follow certain rules and diets and so forth. You get to know more and more about these things, as you venture with Lincoln Six Echo, a particular curious uncontaminated person.
But then suddenly all of the unknown things are revealed, and from here on out, it's just an action packed chase of the 2 escapees, who somehow manages to function perfectly in a world they've never set foot in before.
Don't get me wrong. The action sequences were really well made and intense.
What really annoys me is, that the idea about the contaminated/uncontaminated persons, the island, the perfect society the live in and so on, is really cool. If he (Michael Bay) had just kept us in the unknown for a bit longer, making the story more about finding out about who, what, where, when and why, then it would have had so much more quality.
An overall OK movie, great action, but just leaves me a bit disappointed in the end.